Timeless, Infinite Light + Nightboat Books
Perfect Bound, 360 pages, 6” x 8”
Publication Date: 17 Sept 2019
ISBN: 978-1-643620-17-6
Distribution: Consortium

Introduction by Susan Stryker

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.

We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay trans man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age eleven until his AIDS-related death at thirty-nine. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan’s self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.

Edited by Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma

Developmental Editors: Emji Saint Spero and Lauren Levin, Timeless, Infinite Light

Designed by: Joel Gregory, Timeless, Infinite Light